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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 2830

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 2830
Transliteration
l bʿmh bn ẓnʾl bn brkʾl bn gdy bn qṣy w ṣyr l- nʿrt
Translation
By Bʿmh son of Ẓnl son of Brkʾl son of Gdy son of Qṣy and he came to water to Nʿrt

Interpretation

Commentary
The last part of the inscription is written to the right of the beginning. The last letter is incised on the rock and is smaller than the other letters. KRS 2826-2833 are written on a boulder which has cracked into four sections.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered/incised

Associated Signs
Cartouche with lines attached to it; concentric circles with little circles and lines inside and lines attached to the outside
Associated Inscriptions
KRS 2826-2829; 2831-2833

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0023464
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